> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:33:55PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote: > >> > The way forward for OpenSolaris is >> > the exact opposite - eventually, there will be no distinction at all >> > between Sun and not-Sun with respect to development of the open >> > codebases. >> >> That's terrible, and I hope that either you are misstating things, or >> someone wakes up and smells the burning coffee. >> One of the BAD things about the open source dynamic with linux, in >> comparison, is that there is a whole bunch of badly badly written code in >> there, because there isnt enough oversight for who submits what into the >> tree. > > You're making the same assumption that Dennis made earlier in this > discussion: that trusting a person works better than trusting the > code.
I said no such thing. I did say that there needs to be some level of trust within the scope of a small open source project in which we all need to work closely together. Thus, before you walk in the front door of my house and tell me that you want to paint the walls a new color I'd like to know who you are. The process becomes very different when we are talking about a 50 story skyscraper and multiple elevators and multiple entry and exit points. Then we need to look at a better way to "trust" and "test". <snip> > If OTOH you want to argue for > trusting people instead of code, you have an uphill battle to fight; > that policy is antithetical to all historical and current Solaris > development ideology. Are we talking about Solaris here or Samba, Apache, MySQL and a thousand other things ? For some reason you are taking the process for Solaris and applying it to Squid ? Why ? Perhaps the people that make changes to Squid would not respect your Solaris-Sun centric vision. Open source is about more than Linux. More than Solaris also. Perhaps Blastwave has hit a glass ceiling and can not grow further unless new processes are put in place. Perhaps there is learning here. In the mean time we will continue to create software packages using all the "trust" that we can get using every method that we have at our disposal. That is how a small open source project gets off its knees and begins to walk. -- Dennis Clarke
